claimed content (T-Bone Walker):
- Welcome Blues [Imperial 5147]
- Alimony Blues [Imperial 5153]

- Life Is Too Short [Imperial 5153]
- You Don't Understand [Imperial 5147]

actual content (Archibald):
- Stack-A-Lee [Imperial 5068]
- Shake Baby Shake [Imperial 5082]

- Ballin' With Archie [Imperial 5082]
- Ballin' With Archie (alt tk) [Imperial unissued]

content according to Peter Goldsmith's reader's letter published in Blues Unlimited 121 (September/October 1976), pp. 22-23

Archibald discography

EP
notes by Kurt Mohr

Polydor 27.721 (Fr)

www.arhoolie.com

King 852

Blues Classics
discography

Lightnin' vs. T-Bone

Everest / Archive Of Folk &
Jazz Music FS 313 (US 1965)

original photo; photographer: Harry Oster

flipped photo on Storyville 670119

Snooks Eaglin discography

Storyville 670119

Storyville Records discography

Lightnin' Hopkins vs. Reverend Gary Davis

Verve Folkways FV-9022

= Verve Folkways FTS 3031

Lelan Rogers (International Records executive, brother of country music star Kenny Rogers) wrote some real funny liner notes:

"Lightin Hopkins - The Hippie? No not really - Just plain LIGHTIN - Loved by the Hippies - and non Hippies - A symbol of freedom to everyone who loves music. All my life in the recording world I have heard of Lightin Hopkins - A real legend of music.
Last year while visiting the Haight-Ashbury District, San Francisco, I picked up three boys that were hitching a ride downtown. In the conversation with one of them he told me he had come from Boston, sold everything he owned to go to San Francisco. Everything he had except his Lightin Hopkins albums. He played Guitar with a band and had learned blues listening to all the Lightin Hopkins albums he could buy.
Recently while in New York City at a club in the village I listened to antoher singer - guitarrist preform. Halfway thru his act he broke into his version of Lightin Hopkins blues - guitar licks he said that he had studied at the foot of a master - "Lightin Hopkins".
It is no wonder, having never met Lightin, that in January this year when Mansel Rubenstein, one of Lightin's closest friends called me and asked if I would like to record him- I literally jumped at the chance to go to the studio with the legend LIGHTIN HOPKINS.
The contents of this album are truly Free Form Patterns of Lightin Hopkins - and as Lightin said to me when I questioned him about a few notes I thought were played wrong from his side men "MAN THAT IS THE BLUES - THAT'S LIGHTIN BLUES"
Lelan Rogers

"When I played the command Performance for the Queen of England. I said, QUEEN LADY, I'm sure glad to meet you. and if you'll just sit down over there you'll hear something you ain't never heard before. and I backed up and sit down on a stool and hit that first note so hard, you could hear it clean across the water".
Lightin

[OCRed by Alan Balfour; spelling mistakes are not as a result of poor OCRing but exactly as is!]

International Artists IALP 6

Yazoo L 1031

Chess CH-50013

Blue Goose 2011

King KSD-1060

Kicking Mule
discography

cover painting of LP wrong way round - Bouchillon obviously wasn't left-handed

Old Homestead OHCS-181

Chris Bouchillon discography

notes by Jacques Demêtre

Goody GY 70000 (Fr 1988)

Has a Muddy Waters photo on front cover

Fat Boy CD 184

later issue

1991

1996

Big Joe Williams
Somebody's Been Worryin
Complete Recorded Works In Chronological Order Vol. 2 (1945-1949)

 

Big Joe Williams & Friends
Have Mercy!

Session for original photo obviously has been arranged so that Big Joe - a right-handed guitarist - is holding his guitar 'upside down' (bass strings at the bottom !!!). Some album covers show the photo 'flipped' (as if he was actually playing - which he isn't - see also finger position); such as the Document CD. Some leave it as is (e.g., the Rykodisc CD), even if it looks as if Big Joe was left-handed


source of photo: L. Cohn: Nothing but the blues.- p. 71
(red = commentary Stefan Wirz)

Document BDCD 6004
(original 1991 issue
had different cover)

Tradition/Rykodisc
TCD 1014

Fremeaux

JSP 7719

Silver Line 752

Grammercy
Big Joe Williams discography

Pilz CD 449320-2
(Golden Legend Series)Big Joe Williams
discography

- James Cotton vs. Charles Lloyd

Success 16235CD

Some record companies don't seem to be able to distinguish between those two artists and place pictures of the 'false one' on album covers containing the music of the other one. The right column shows a few of those covers (no claim to be exhaustive).

SBW I cover
with SBW II content:

Collectables CD 5537

SBW II covers
with SBW I content:

Nostalgia CD 17

Mastersong CD

Drive 3216

Eagle CD

History 20.1933

History 20-1935-HI

Earl King vs. Earl 'Conolly' King

Westside WESM 520

Aim CD 2008 (Australia)

innernet speak

Indigo IGOCD 2076 (UK)

Walter Davis vs. Juke Boy Bonner

Master Classics Records

- Big Mama Thornton vs. Big Maybelle